Lin Bei fell silent, looking at the familiar shop decor before him.
Indeed, as he expected, the shop the coachman promoted was the very one he had already partnered with.
Now, as soon as they reached the shop entrance, they could already hear the lively clamor from inside.
Clearly, this shop's business was doing very well.
This was only shortly after the promotion began; if more time passed... the shop's popularity would likely become even more exaggerated.
"Boss, you're here!"
Suddenly, a slender figure appeared at the shop entrance, her pure white wings fluttering continuously behind her. Her beautiful eyes were fixed on Lin Bei, a joyful smile on her lips.
"Yes, I'm here. But... you should still keep a low profile. Don't let anyone know my identity."
Lin Bei activated his Spirit power shield, easily masking the perceptions of all the surrounding Survivors, so no one heard their conversation.
"Alright, alright, Boss! Are these your friends?"
Bailing pointed at Gale and the others beside Lin Bei. Due to the Spirit shield and concealment, they were still looking at the shop door in astonishment, completely unaware of the conversation between Lin Bei and Bailing.
The scene looked extremely strange.
As if they were in two different parallel universes.
"Yes, I suppose so."
Lin Bei nodded, then pointed at the shop behind her, frowning as he asked, "Do you have enough stock in your shop? If nothing unexpected happens, in a few days, your place will be bustling with customers."
"It's still Fine for now, but I need to use medals to purchase stock. If it continues like this, there really won't be a way."
Bailing said with some distress, "I'm also worrying about this matter."
"Hmm, alright then, I'll temporarily handle your shop's supply issues."
Lin Bei mused for a moment, then took out a Storage Ring he had obtained from opening a treasure chest earlier. It had about a hundred cubic meters of space, filled with materials and items of Fine Quality and above, but below Transcendent Quality, all things Lin Bei had no use for.
Now, using them as shop inventory was quite sufficient.
"Take these; they should be enough for a short while."
"Wow, so many materials and items! Boss, you're my idol! I love you to death!"
Bailing checked the materials and items in the Storage Ring, her eyes immediately sparkling as she looked at Lin Bei, making a move to pounce and hug him.
"Cough, cough, pay attention to the occasion. There are so many customers in the shop right now, hurry up and get busy."
Lin Bei took half a step back, adopting a defensive posture, interrupting Bailing's next move.
...Alright, I understand."
Bailing pouted upon hearing this, giving Lin Bei a reluctant glance, then turned and fluttered her wings back into the shop.
Lin Bei saw this and breathed a sigh of relief.
He lifted the Spirit shield.
Soon, the surrounding human voices surged in like a tide.
The people next to him were even more overjoyed.
"Hahaha, I can't believe it's true! You can really buy goods with star stone here! This is amazing!"
"Yeah, star stone isn't very useful for us lone players anyway. Instead of letting the Major Powers exploit us, it's better to use them to buy items and equipment we can use."
"Alright, I can't wait to go in and buy things! Look, there are more and more people now. If we go too late, we might not get good stuff!"
"Okay, okay, let's go in together!"
Everyone chatted and laughed, then walked directly into the shop.
Fortunately, the shop's interior space was equipped with a special spatial array, making its area more than a hundred times larger than it appeared from the outside. Otherwise, even if they squeezed their heads off, they definitely wouldn't be able to get in.
Inside the shop, business was booming.
Lin Bei just glanced around and found that there were already no less than a hundred customers.
As for Bailing... she wasn't as busy as Lin Bei had imagined.
Inside the shop, more than a dozen figures were busily moving around, conducting transactions with customers.
She herself, as always, rested her chin on her hand behind the counter, her bright eyes constantly glancing towards Lin Bei.
Clearly, her mind wasn't on the shop at all, but entirely on Lin Bei.
Lin Bei scanned the dozen or so busy figures in the shop. With his powerful Mental Attribute, he could tell at a glance that these shop assistants were not humans, nor were they Reborn Ones.
These shop assistants were actually condensed from Spirit and vital energy through special means, similar to clones.
He carefully distinguished the aura of these shop assistants and was surprised to find that their aura was over ninety percent similar to Bailing's.
If he wasn't mistaken, these clones were created by her.
Lin Bei felt a little tempted by this.
Although his Mental Attribute had already exceeded one hundred million, when it came to specialized uses of Spirit power, he hadn't mastered many.
The abilities he could currently use were just some rudimentary methods he had haphazardly figured out based on the characteristics of the Mental Attribute.
However, Bailing's cloning method was clearly different; it fused the characteristics of vital energy and Spirit, which Lin Bei found very novel.
"If I could also master this method, even if the Lucky Faction had far fewer people than other factions, I could still form an army by myself and easily defeat those enemies!"
"The key is... if I have enough clones, my main body can remain hidden. Even if I make many mistakes, it's the clones that die, and I myself can remain safe and sound. It sounds so relaxing!"
Lin Bei thought to himself, his gaze on the clones growing brighter.
Not far away, Bailing, who had been secretly observing Lin Bei with her chin resting on her hand, was delighted to see him staring at her clones.
"Could it be... Boss likes this style? Hmm... I need to remember that. Next time we meet, I'll have to dress up nicely!"
"Eh, he's looking at another clone now! His eyes seem... very excited? Good, good, I'll write this down too! It might come in handy next time!"
"Wow, and that one! He actually looked for ten more seconds! Note it down! Must note it down!"
In an instant, Bailing was re-energized. She pulled out a small notebook from under the counter and began to happily write and draw.
Anyone who didn't know would think she was busy with accounting.
On the other side, under Bailing's special care, the Wildwind Squad members also purchased many items they desired at very favorable prices.
"Haha, we really came to the right place this time! I can't believe that Perfect Quality Storm Greatsword only sold for 888 star stones. It's truly a great find!"
Gale was beaming with joy. He had always used an excellent quality greatsword, and although he had reinforced it several times with various materials, its power and material quality were even slightly superior to a Perfect Quality greatsword.
However, that greatsword's potential had been exploited to its limit and could no longer be further enhanced.
But now, he had only spent 888 star stones to get a very handy plain Perfect Quality greatsword. Once he reinforced it a bit, his own strength would definitely increase by a large margin!
Besides him, the other members of the squad also had significant gains, each with joyful smiles on their faces.
Clearly, their trip was not in vain.
Lin Bei was genuinely happy for them when he saw this.
Through their conversations, he also learned a lot of information about the High-Level Survival World.
If low-level survival was Island Survival, then high-level survival was Starry Sky Survival.
In the High-Level Survival World, whether it was equipment, items, or materials, the technological level and craftsmanship were more than one grade higher than in the low-level Survival World.
However, it was equally difficult for them to obtain high-quality items, even more so than in the low-level Survival World.
Because in the low-level world, supply treasure chests were obtained through fishing, but in the high-level world, it was completely different. To obtain supply treasure chests, Survivors needed to explore different planets in the universe's starry sky.
Those planets were filled with various dangers.
A slight mistake could lead to death.
Therefore, for Survivors in the high-level world, the difficulty of obtaining a supply treasure chest far exceeded that of the low-level Survival World!
Of course, the rewards in return were also extraordinary.
For example, for items of the same quality, items produced in the High-Level Survival World would have effects far superior to those from the low-level Survival World.
To give a simple example, after Lin Bei opened a treasure chest, he got an excellent quality shadow tank in the Island Survival World. But with the same luck, in the Starry Sky Survival World, he might have gotten an excellent quality cosmic warship.
And if a cosmic warship were brought to the Island Survival World, even if there was only one, with sufficient energy supply, it could easily defeat an army of tens of thousands of shadow tanks.
This is the fundamental difference between the low-level Survival World and the High-Level Survival World.
So, Lin Bei was now pondering whether he should kill a few more Survivors from the high-level world.
That way, he should be able to get many high-level world supply treasure chests from their legacies.
And if he opened them... the harvest would definitely be substantial!
"Hmm... that's a truly tempting idea."
Lin Bei murmured, rubbing his chin.